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<h2 id="Howtoescapespecialcharsinresourcebundles-NormalJavaresourcebundles">Normal Java resource bundles</h2>

<div class="confluence-information-macro confluence-information-macro-note"><p class="title">API: java.util.Properties</p><span class="aui-icon aui-icon-small aui-iconfont-warning confluence-information-macro-icon"></span><div class="confluence-information-macro-body">
<p>The method does not treat a backslash character, \, before a non-valid escape character as an error; the backslash is silently dropped. For example, in a Java string the sequence "\z" would cause a compile time error. In contrast, this method silently drops the backslash. Therefore, this method treats the two character sequence "\b" as equivalent to the single character 'b'.</p></div></div>

<h2 id="Howtoescapespecialcharsinresourcebundles-MessageFormatrules">MessageFormat rules</h2>

<p>The table describes how to escape some special charaters.</p>

<h3 id="Howtoescapespecialcharsinresourcebundles-Thespecialchars\',{and}:">The special chars \', { and }:</h3>

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<pre>escape ' with another '
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<pre>''
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<pre>escape \ with another \
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<pre>\\
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<pre>enclose } with '
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<pre>'}'
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<pre>enclose { with '
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<pre>'{'
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